NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is a pretty entertaining dude.  We watched him tear up the stage at CES this past January with infectious amounts of energy over his brand and the future of Android tablets using Tegra 2 processors.  And now we’re watching him make bold predictions over the future of that same tablet industry, which he thinks will mimic that of the smartphone.

On Monday, at Reuter’s Global Technology Summit, he tossed out the idea that in 30 months or so, Android tablets will eclipse those from Apple.

“The Android phone took only two and a half years to achieve the momentum that we’re talking about. I would expect the same thing on Honeycomb tablets,” Huang told the Reuters Technology Summit in New York on Monday.

It’s hard to argue with his logic there, but man, it’s going to be a rough ride especially after looking at the lack of success from this first wave of Honeycomb tablets.  Sure, the XOOM and Transformer are quality products, but you can’t with a straight face say that they have been a success to either Motorola or Asus.

Huang is however hoping that his next release, the Kal-el quad-core processor, will help take Android tablets to the next level.  So far, NVIDIA has 10 players ready to use this new chip (5 phone and 5 PC manufacturers) which is expected to be ready for prime time tablet use by the middle of this year and in phones towards the end.  Lofty expectations I’d say, especially knowing that things like 4G LTE can’t find a way to play nicely with their current crop of processors.

What do you guys think, does Android stand a chance as a tablet OS?  We know that it took a couple of years for the smartphone side of things to come around, but is this gap between the iPad and us to big to overcome?

Via:  Reuters

So Bang Bang Racing THD just hit the Android Market for Tegra device and I was going to toss together a quick video of it in action, but I’m officially the worst player you’ll ever see.  Rather than be embarrassed on a Friday night, I decided to instead just paste the video demo below.  ”Pansy!” I know.  The game is fun though and brings back childhood memories of my Micro Machines collection.  Oh, it is also $8, so watch that demo video more than once before purchasing.  

Who isn’t giddy as a school girl after watching that video?  Bang Bang Racing is like Reckless Racing only with mini cars and ridiculously good graphics.  There is a chance it’ll pop up in the Tegra Zone tomorrow for your Tegra 2 device (which we’re hoping includes the XOOM), but we have been unable to confirm that.  There are reports floating around that it was announced by NVIDIA and @BBR_THD, except those tweets seem to have been pulled or are for some reason invisible to us.  Either way, we’ll be following this game closely.

Via:  Android Community

Last week we were tipped to the possible existence of two new Motorola Tegra 3 devices headed for Q1 2012 codenamed the Jet and Bullet, but without confirmation from additional sources, it was definitely dubbed as one giant “rumor.”  And then this weekend, we received these two pictures that are also apparently of an unannounced Motorola device in testing.  Is it the Targa?  Could it be the Bullet?  Maybe it’s just a DROIDX2 with a fat battery cover?  And of course it could be nothing at all and just a fake?  It’s really impossible to tell from these pictures, so we’ll just have to let you guys decide.  

The DROIDX2 appears to have been benchmarked over at Nenamark recently, possibly confirming that it will have a Tegra 2 dual-core processor, which is news we first reported on back in January.  It is also showing up with a screen resolution of 960×540 which would suggest that it will have the same qHD screen that will accompany the DROID BIONIC and the rest of Motorola’s new high-end devices.  This is good news for a device that was really just looking like a small re-hash of last year’s uber successful original DROIDX.

Oh, and about that rumor that it will be a 4G LTE device – I’m still not ready to buy into that idea.  Could we still be on for a May release though?  Wouldn’t surprise me.

Recently purchased a Motorola XOOM, but aren’t exactly sure which games you want to start crushing on with that ridiculously powerful Tegra 2 chip?  Don’t worry, NVIDIA has you covered with their new app called, TEGRA ZONE.  The app has one purpose, and that’s to  get you in touch with not only the best games on the Android Market, but the ones that can fully utilize all that the Tegra 2 has to offer.  When you think of a market that highlights only the best stuff in an amazingly clear way, this is exactly what you probably envisioned.

The app is free to download, brings you reviews and comments, highlights news related to Tegra 2 gaming and most importantly, redirects you back to the original market to finalize your purchases.  This is the way app markets should be implemented.

Download TEGRA ZONE.

Full release, list of games and a bunch of pics after the break.  

Last week, our sources tipped us to the proposed roadmap for the DROID brand for the first half of 2011 and it included the new version of the DROID X, which we’ve been told will simply be called the DROID X2.  A couple of days later, we were also told that the device would end up having a Tegra 2 dual-core clocked at 1GHz, could be out by May and will not a 4G LTE device.  Actually, that was the second time we had been told it would not be 4G.

And today, a report dropped out of HotHardware confirming all of this, well except for the 4G part.  According to their sources, the DROID X2 is currently floating around VZW or Moto headquarters as the “Daytona” and will indeed have a dual-core processor, new qHD screen, and the same battery as the original DX.  They aren’t willing to completely drop the 4G tag from it yet, but we’re pretty sure you can forget about those speeds on this phone.  The device will also have the same HDMI-out, micro-USB, and 8MP camera.

Time to start digging around for Motorola Daytona references.

Via:  Android and Me
Source:  HotHardware

We’re still waiting for the first Tegra 2 dual-core smartphone to become available, but that hasn’t stopped NVIDIA from preparing their next generation of chips.  If this leaked roadmap is correct, we should start preparing for a new Tegra 2 every couple of months with the first being one that will support 3D displays and can be clocked at 1.2GHz.  With all of the talk about LG and the possibility of them launching the first 3D phone at MWC, we could be seeing these much sooner than any anticipated.  And let’s not forget that NVIDIA announced LG’s Optimus 2X as the “world’s first” Tegra 2 phone, so we won’t be surprised at all if they get the first 3D one.

The roadmap doesn’t stop there though.  How does a quad-core Tegra 3 clocked at 1.5GHz sound?  Remarkable right?  Well what if we told you that devices could start seeing these processors in the Fall of this year?  Your mind is probably blown now, so we’ll give you a minute to let that settle.

The smartphone world is evolving more quickly than I think any of us had ever imagined.  We just spent a week at CES watching companies rave about their new Tegra 2 devices, but we had no idea that we’d all be moving past it in such a hurry.

Can you imagine the power of a quad-core Android phone?

Source:  TechEye
Via:  Android and Me